Quiz

1. If we are trying to be gender balanced when portraying a woman we should use language and portrayals that focused on her:

Age Knowledge and expertise Role as a wife or mother ‘Feminine’ characteristics and personality traits Physical appearance and what they are wearing

2. How can you make women more prominent in the content that you create without stereotyping them?

Write more entertainment and lifestyle stories about women Don’t limit images of women only to stories about about women Feature the wives and girlfriends of men main characters and subjects where possible Write more stories about mothers and families

3. What does the rule of parallelism refer to?

An article about a man/men should be matched with a parallel article about a woman/women Men and women should be treated the same in their titles, descriptions, characteristics, attributes You cannot always include men and women in parallel In a parallel universe the news is dominated by women and not men